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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Finance Committee Contra
Costa
DATE: April 9, 1985 County
SUBJECT: CONSIDERATION OF SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR CONCORD VISITOR'S
AND CONVENTION BUREAU
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Approve additional allocution of $5,934 to Concord Visitor' s and
Convention Bureau in recognition of the increases in transient
occupancy tax for 1984-85.
REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION:
1. The Convention Bureau operates as a business which generates
convention activity in the County and the City of Concord. As
many County resources as possible should be allocated to this
revenue generation activity. $5,934 represents the increase in
activity.
2. Over 90% of the County' s transient occupancy tax are derived from
the Sheraton Hotel which is a beneficiary of the Convention
Bureau' s activities.
BACKGROUND:
The Convention Bureau originally asked for $16,262 more than the Board
allocated this year. That amount would have kept the County
consistent with an agreement made several years ago with the City of
Concord to share the cost of the Convention Bureau based on the number
of rooms each entity had in the area. Because of the County' s
financial situation, this arrangement has not been followed for
several years. The transient occupancy tax receipts for 1984-85 are
already above the budgeted amounts. The Committee feels that because
of this and because the increase can be attributed to increased
occupancy at the Sheraton, that a modest additional allocation is in
order. The allocation increase is 12 the same as the increase in
activity at the Sheraton for last year.
Staff will continue to study a method of evaluating how hotel activity
and transient occupancy tax can be evaluated.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATIO OF MITTEE
APPROVE LL �O�cT�HI,E�R
SIGNATURE(S) Supervisor Sunne McPeak chroder
ACTION OF BOARD ON AP ROVED AS RECOMMENDED 14— OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED April 9, 1985
Auditor-Controller Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Burd of
Supervisors and County Administrator
M382/7-83 BY I DEPUTY
1, CONCORD VISITORS & CONVENTION BUREAU FUNDING
2. TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX 1984-85 INCREASE